Obsidian Readest Highlights

Readest stores its library, progress, and annotations locally as JSON. This plugin reads those files and renders the highlights into your Obsidian vault.

Docs: Install, Settings reference

Commands

Command	Action
Sync all books to folder	Creates or updates a note per book in the configured folder.
Sync one book to folder...	Pick a single book from a fuzzy picker.
Append one book to current note...	Pick a book, appends its highlights to the active note.

Requirements

Desktop Obsidian with access to a Readest Books folder. Readest's built-in sync is the easiest way to collect annotations from other devices into one folder, but any setup that exposes the folder to Obsidian works.

What the plugin accesses

• Readest folder, read-only. A path outside your vault, configured in Settings. The plugin only reads library.json and each book's config.json, and never writes to this folder. Reading outside the vault requires the Node fs module because Obsidian's vault API does not cover external paths.
• Vault, read and write. Scans notes for the readest-hash frontmatter field inside your output folder to match books to existing notes on re-sync, then creates or updates notes there.
• No network. The plugin makes no outbound requests.

Disclaimer

Independent community plugin, not affiliated with Readest.